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The items in the right pic could be moved to a flash drive or burned to CD. You will have to find them.

The Flash is easy to redownload. The Windows Security updates will just download and install again.

I'll check what my Sys Restore looks like and be back in a moment for the left picture.
I want to be sure.

My last Back up System Restore looks like yours. So this is defintely a System Restore point you are showing.
They changed the wording a bit on Win7 compared to XP.
If you need to go back that far you can try it.
Transfer what you can.

Is this a general backup or system IMAGE & BACKUP

Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image BackupHow to Create a System Image Backup in Windows 7
A system image is an exact copy of a drive. By default, a system image includes the drives required for Windows to run. A system image would include all NTFS formatted partitions with an operating system installed on it (ex: C ), as well as the...

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Managing a backup from a previous image (eg. deleting system image)Hello,
Before I re-imaged my laptop, I made sure to do a backup of personal files + a system image in case things went wrong.
The imaging was successful, and now, the new Win7 OS recognizes the old backup as a backup from another computer (as it should).
However, is it possible to manage...

Backup and Restore

system image backup - how does windows pick the drives to backup?Hi
From times to times I load my disk image backup from win7 system and install the new programs/drivers i was using and save a new backup.
I usually to do this by backing up my C: drive, but this turn to my surprise, windows for some reason wants to backup C and D, is it possible to pick a...

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System Image BackupDoes anyone know: is the actual backup image created during a system image backup available to be viewed in a directory tree structure anywhere ?
My interest stems from having executed the backup (successfully) onto an external drive from within a 2 500 GB disk RAID 0 environment, comprising...

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Backup of system image?I perform an incremental back-up every day using the built-in backup program.
How often would you do a whole system image? I was thinking of only doing that every few months or less. Each image would be 80GB.